Posts tagged The Sun

How close Liverpool actually got to signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan we’ll probably never know, but with the Armenian now a confirmed Borussia Dortmund player, Mark Irwin from The Sun has taken the opportunity to put his boot into Brendan Rodgers.
“HENRIKH MKHITARYAN might just have done Liverpool a huge favour by turning them down in [...]

Charlie Wyett speculates in The Sun today that Arsenal may be willing to listen to offers for club captain Thomas Vermaelen over the Summer, and that Arsene Wenger is attempting to ‘freeze-out’ the Belgian out of The Emirates.
Maybe, although I’m not sure starting someone in 25 Premier League games really counts as a freezi [...]

This is an extraordinary story from The Sun - really, really desperate, even for them.
Steven Howard writes in sentences, rather than paragraphs, so here are the first few from his article this morning:
“TEN Games — we won’t argue with that.
Though, of course, if anyone else had bitten someone in the course of their work they wou [...]

Two days on from his first ‘exclusive’ about Gareth Bale, The Sun‘s bollocks-merchant in-residence Rob Beasley has turned in another spectacular effort.
He’s going to Bayern Munich! No, he’s going to Real Madrid! Actually no, he’s going to Manchester City now!
Come on Rob, you have as much idea about thi [...]

Yesterday, you’ll remember, Yaya Toure’s agent did what representatives do best: he went bleating to the press about a perceived lack of respect for his client, and the need for a new contract offer to be made within the next three days.
It wasn’t about the money, he insisted. Rubbish, of course it was.
I’d imagined [...]

If you can bothered, have a read of Steven Howard’s piece in The Sun today - or, if you object to reading tabloid papers on moral grounds, here’s a sample paragraph:
“One thing Wenger’s team will never be able to live with — and certainly not those Gunners fans who have been let down so many times over the last seven [...]

You may remember that a couple of days ago The Sun published a reader poll based around the notion that “Steven Howard reckons that the future looks bleak for Wayne Rooney at Old Trafford”.
Strangely though, today he chooses to mock the speculation that the forward will move on in the Summer. In his column, entitled ‘Get [...]

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It’s difficult to understand why Alan Shearer has been given so many different opportunities in the media, he offers little more than additional banality in an already horribly bland world.
The former Newcastle forward has a column in The Sun, presumably to keep him busy while he’s not doing any research at [...]

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If you were being polite about Charlie Wyett’s piece in The Sun this morning, you might describe it as being opportunistic - that might be too kind, though.
Wyett gets all excited with an EXCLUSIVE! about the apparent deterioration in the relationship between Steve Bould and Arsene Wenger at Arsenal. The w [...]

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Is that The Sun I see, twisting quotes and making-up a story?
Surely not…
‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt’ screams the headline of Andrew Dillon’s great work of fiction, which comprises some utterly harmless comments from Rafa Benitez, yet is prefaced by this opening paragraph:
RAFA BENIT [...]

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Did the fires around this really need to be stoked any further?
The Sun have done what they do best this morning, and created a sensation out of some innocent quotes.
‘Ref: Blues tried to wreck me’ is the headline, which is the paper’s way of making it seem as if Clattenburg is accusing Chelsea of inte [...]

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Allowing ex-players to write columns is such a waste of internet space. Employing someone because they may have existed at the centre of the topic you’re covering is fine, but only if their output reflects that experience.
Ian Wright musings in The Sun invariably don’t, and his perspective could quite eas [...]

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I can barely type this with a straight face.
Shaun Custis of The Sun would have you believe that Arsenal are about to bid Theo Walcott and £8m for Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling.
So, given that Walcott is available for free in the Summer, that would be just the £8m then? Liverpool can have the Arsenal winger in the [...]

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There’s a formula for this kind of journalism, and it involves taking some benign quotations and twisting them into something salacious and sellable.
Step-up Andy Cole, who has been talking to The Sun about Manchester United’s current crop of forwards in relation to the set of strikers at Old Trafford during [...]